λίαν
lían · G3029 · Greek · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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very
Generalized, positive degree
ExamplesMatthew 2:16 Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent men and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity who were two years old or under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took Him along to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Matthew 8:28 And when He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men confronted Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- σφόδρα sphódra · G4970 · exceedingly, greatly, violently
- Both terms function as adverbial intensifiers of degree — 'very' and 'exceedingly, greatly, violently' — belonging to the same family of degree-intensifiers, and are genuinely interchangeable as intensifiers of high degree despite lacking one single identical technical classification.
In the other Testament 1 word
- מְאֹד mᵉʼôd · H3966 · very, exceedingly
- Both function as intensifying adverbs expressing high degree or extent; λίαν typically modifies adjectives or verbs to mean "very/exceedingly," while מְאֹד serves the same intensifying role across similar grammatical contexts, making them direct translational equivalents for adverbial emphasis.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Very78.1
- λίαν is an adverb of intensification, meaning very or exceedingly. Matthew 2:16 recounts that when Herod realized he had been tricked by the magi, “he became very enraged,” the λίαν naming this intensified degree of his fury.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (in Homer and Ionic λίην) (for λιλαν, λαῷ to desire: cf. Curtius, § 532), adverb,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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